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Quotes 4541 till 4560 of 6336.

  • Ahmed Ben Bella The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Junius The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Rowan The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Branford Marsalis The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Deming The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Alva Myrdal The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • John Heywood The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Henry Newman The love of Our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Susan Sontag The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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